The grim and heroic myth of the Mycenaean Atreides has had a hold on European imagination for thousands of years now: from Homer and the tragedians of the Classical Greece to the Eastern Question so hot in 19th century to the Freudian psychoanalytical myth-making and the modern feminist tale of gentle matriarchate. People have been gazing into the past, seeing their own reflection in the dark tale of Agamemnon, his ancestors and children.